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pppl..njoy n think twice b4 making a wish...!!!!


> A Man walking along a California beach was deep in prayer. Suddenly a sky
> clouded above his head, and in booming voice, the Lord said, "Because you
> have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."
>
> The man said, "Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive over any time I
> want."
>
> The Lord said, "Your request is very materialistic. Think of the enormous
> challenges for that kind of undertaking. The supports required to reach
> the
> bottom of the Pacific! The concrete and steel it would take! I can do it,
> but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldy things........
> Take
> a little more time and think of another wish, a wish you think would honor
> and glorify me."
>
> The man thought about it for a long time. Finally he said, "Lord, I wish
> that I could understand women. I want to know how they feel , what
> they are thinking when they give me the silent treatment, why they cry,
> what they mean when they say 'nothing' and how I can make a woman truly
> happy?" The Lord replied " You want two lanes or four lanes on that
> bridge???!!!"

WHY INDIANS CAN'T BE TERRORISTS

Light Humour...

WHY INDIANS CAN'T BE TERRORISTS 1. We are always late, we would have missed all 4 flights. 2. Pretty girls on the plane would distract us. 3. We would talk loudly and bring attention to ourselves. 4. With food and drinks on the plane, we would forget why we're there. 5. We talk with our hands, therefore we would have to put our weapons down. 6. We would ALL want to fly the plane. 7. We would argue and start a fight in the plane. 8. We can't keep a secret, we would have told everyone a week before doing it. AND 9. We would have put our country's flag on the windshield. -------------------- moderator's note: you missed number 10... 10. We would all have fallen over each other to be in the photograph being taken by one of the hostages.

The Anti-PC

The name Surface comes from "surface computing," and Microsoft envisions the coffee-table machine as the first of many such devices. Surface computing uses a blend of wireless protocols, special machine-readable tags and shape recognition to seamlessly merge the real and the virtual world — an idea the Milan team refers to as "blended reality." The table can be built with a variety of wireless transceivers, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and (eventually) radio frequency identification (RFID) and is designed to sync instantly with any device that touches its surface. One of the key components of surface computing is a "multitouch" screen. It is an idea that has been floating around the research community since the 1980s and is swiftly becoming a hip new product interface — Apple's new iPhone has multitouch scrolling and picture manipulation. Multitouch devices accept input from multiple fingers and multiple users simultaneously, allowing for complex gestures, including grabbing, stretching, swiveling and sliding virtual objects across the table. And the Surface has the added advantage of a horizontal screen, so several people can gather around and use it together. Its interface is the exact opposite of the personal computer: cooperative, hands-on, and designed for public spaces. If it seems as though the Surface machine sprang up out of nowhere, that's only because Microsoft has been unusually secretive about it. Early designs of the table were displayed around the room as evidence of the product's long development cycle; rejected shapes included "squashed white egg" and "podium." Steven Bathiche, research manager for the project, has been involved since the beginning (in 2001) when he and fellow researcher Andy Wilson first dreamed up the idea of a tabletop computer. Bathiche spoke about the Milan project's evolution with the evident excitement of a man who's had to keep the most important thing he's ever done a secret for six years. "We've gone through several generations of this machine," he said. "The first was a proof-of-concept called T1, and we just hacked it into an IKEA table." And there it was, partially disassembled, behind me. It looked as if they had attacked the prefab particleboard furniture from the Swedish superstore with a Sawzall, then stuffed in off-the-shelf computer parts, cameras, projectors and mirrors until it all worked. The idea went straight to the top: Once Bill Gates okayed it, surface computing moved from a heady research project to the nuts-and-bolts planning of product development.

Surface Computing

Touchscreen SalesbotAfter you see the Surface in action, it doesn't take long to figure out just how attractive such a machine must be to the retail and service industries. Microsoft has partnered up with cellular provider T-Mobile, as well as hotel conglomerate Starwood Hotels and Resorts (which owns Sheraton, Westin and W Hotels, among others) and Vegas casino giant Harrah's Entertainment. Machines will be ready for deployment by the end of 2007. So you could, for instance, walk into a T-Mobile store, pick up a phone you're considering buying and place it on the Surface. The table could then either link with the phone via Bluetooth or scan a code imprinted on the packaging to identify it. Suddenly, the phone is surrounded by graphical information (pricing, features, etc.). After selecting a service plan and any accessories, you just run your credit card through a reader built into the table (or, when RFID cards have become the norm, just slap your card on the tabletop) and your new phone is paid for. By the time you open the package, everything is set up — all without talking to a single employee. It's easy to dismiss the concept as pure novelty — and at first it may well be. But ask yourself: When was the last time you made a bank withdrawal from a human teller? The Surface machine is networked and infinitely flexible. You could use it to order food in a restaurant. While you wait, you could play games or surf the Internet, and then eat off its surface. And every table in the joint could be a jukebox, a television or a billboard for advertising. (You didn't think advertisers would miss out on this, did you?) And once you've gotten used to ordering calamari through a tabletop at your favorite eatery, you may want to use it to call up recipes on your kitchen counter. Surface machines will cost $5000 to $10,000 at launch, but as prices fall, similar devices may find their way into the home. "We view its migration as similar to that of plasma TVs," says Pete Thompson, Microsoft's general manager for surface computing. "People will see it in public spaces like bars and restaurants and want to expand it into other environments." Its current coffee-table shape could evolve into a Pottery Barn-style catalog of computerized furniture — a dining room table, a wall-mounted panel, a desk or practically any surface. "It's a platform that can be put into various form factors," Thompson says. "This is a way to put technology into a piece of wood." Computer scientists see technologies such as surface computing and multitouch as the key to a new era of ubiquitous computing, where processing power is embedded in almost every object and everything is interactive. Last year, New York University professor Jeff Han launched a company called Perceptive Pixel, which builds six-figure-plus custom multitouch drafting tables and enormous interactive wall displays for large corporations and military situation rooms. "I firmly believe that in the near future, we will have wallpaper displays in every hallway, in every desk. Every surface will be a point of interaction with a computer," Han says, "and for that to happen, we really need interfaces like this." Short-term success for a technology can be measured by how much attention a product gathers when it is new. Long-term success is measured by how effectively that product disappears into the everyday routine of life. Surface computing has enormous potential to do both — it is a splashy new computer interface, surrounded by hype, but it is also, quite literally, furniture. It is a technology in its infancy, where even the engineers behind it can't predict its full impact; but the possibilities are everywhere, underhand and underfoot — on every surface imaginable

full names

1. NIIT : Not Interested in IT
2. WIPRO : Weak Input, Poor & Rubbish Output
3. HCL : Hidden Costs & Losses
4. TCS : Totally Confusing Solutions
5. INFOSYS :Inferior Offline Systems
6. HUGHES : Highly Useless Graduates Hired for Eating and Sleeping
7. BAAN : Beggars Association and Nerds
8. IBM : Implicitly Boring Machines
9. SATYAM : Sad And Tired Yelling Away Madly
10. PARAM : Puzzled And Ridiculous Array of Microprocessors
11. C-DOT : Coffee During Office Timings
12. AT&T : All Troubles & Terrible
13. CMC : Coffee, Meals and Comfort
14. DEC : Drifting & Exhausted Computers
15. BFL : Brainwash First and Let them go
17. TISL : Totally Inconsistent Systems Ltd.
18. PSI : Peculiar Symptoms of India
19. ORACLE : On-line Romance And Chatting with Lady Employees.
20. PATNI: Pathetic Appraisal Techniques, No Increments.
21. MASTEK: Mad And Stupid Technitian

message

This message was forwarded to me by a friend. An excellent response by atrue Sardaar:"Hello friendz!!Well, jayant , my friend, told me the following incident which i wish toshare with you. It has had a deep impact on my thinking.In the diwali vacation, Jayant and his couple of friends had gone to delhi.They rented a taxi forlocal sight-seeing.The driver was a old sardar, and boys being boys, Jayant and his pals began cracking sardarjijokes, just to insinuate the old man.But to their surprise, the fellow remained unperturbed.At the end of the sight-seeing, they paid up the hire-charges. The sardarreturned the change. Moreover, he gave each one of them one rupee extra and said,( in Hindi , ofcourse) ,''son, sincemorning you have been telling sardarji jokes. I listened to them all and letme tell you, some of them were in a very bad taste.Still, I don't mind coz I know that you are young blood and are yet to seethe world. But I havejust one request. Here I am giving you one rupee each. Give it to the first sardar beggar that youcome across in this city."Jayant continued," That one rupee coin is still with me. I couldn't find asingle sardar begging onthe streets of Delhi."Friends, we all love sardar jokes. But the fact of matter is that sikhs areone of the mostprosperous and diversified communities in the world. The secret behind theiruniversal success,according to me , is their willingness to do any job with utmost dedication. A sardar will drive atruck or set up a roadside garage or a dhaba, but he will never beg on thestreets.Are we just going to pass on long forwarded mails of sardar jokes, or are wegoing to try and bring our own community on par with theirs ??Please think abt it and let me know your reactions.

PIN NUMBER REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATMmachine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse.For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. TheATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM cardyou placed in the machine.The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown tothe robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it isseldom used because people don't know it exists.Please pass this along to everyone possible